Does Preaching Count?

3 Questions for all preaching

Must not all who speak for Christ constantly ask themselves these crucial questions:

-Does the gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus?

-Would those who believe it become his apprentices as a natural “next step”?

-What can we reasonably expect would result from people actually believing the substance of my message?

we must develop a straightforward presentation, in word and life, of the reality of life now under God’s rule, through reliance upon the word and person of Jesus. In this way we can naturally become his students or apprentices. We can learn from him how to live our lives as he would live them if he were we. We can enter his eternal kind of life now.

Dallas Willard: Divine Conspiracy